October Update

A couple months have slipped by since our last update.  In fact it's been so long my parents have booked tickets out here just to make sure we're still alive.  December will be busy here with a total of 6 people coming out for visits.  

We are now officially out of rainy season.  Although somebody forgot to tell the rain that was falling most of the day yesterday and through the night.  The boys took a "if you can't beat it join it" approach and made a slip-n-slide out of a tarp.  A little water, soap and friends and they had a fun afternoon of sliding.

The twins continue to grow.  While they seem to be bulking up, they started out a bit behind and at 4 months of age they were still both in single digit percentile territory for length and weight.  Here they are at their latest photo op.

And with Christopher and Kobe helping Grace into her best George Costanza impression.

Jamie and Blessing have a bi-monthly wrestling match where Jamie tries to take out Blessing's old braids and re-braid her hair.  Today was gameday.  Below is Blessing after winning the first round.

The hospital continues to progress, but we had another side project in September.  A new SP staff member and family were heading out and there was no available housing, so we had to renovate a house that has not been renovated since the war, and has not been lived in for over a year.  In four weeks our contractor managed to install a new roof, ceiling, plumbing, windows, window bars, doors, electrical, flooring and paint.

The living room before.

and after.

The kitchen/laundry building will be finishing up in the next month.  The contractor has the walls up to ceiling level.  A few pictures from the past month or two...

We received 2 containers with the roofing for the building a couple weeks ago.  Each roof panel weighs about 275 lbs.  A crane would have cost over $1,500 to rent, so we just used man-power.  They had all 50+ sheets unloaded in about 2 hours.

Now the next challenge, getting them up on the roof!